• PGIM Divests Two Arizona Assets

    JLL’s Seniors Housing Capital Markets team completed the sale and financing of three assets across two separate deals. First, it announced that it sold The Watermark at Morrison Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona, and Acoya Mesa in Mesa, Arizona. Both communities were stabilized at the time of the deal. JLL marketed the portfolio on behalf of the seller,... Read More »
  • Underperforming Asset Trades in California

    A seniors housing community in Vacaville, California, sold with the help of Nick Stahler and Chad Mundy of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. At the time of LOI, the asset was underperforming and financially strained. Built in 2004, it features more than 80 assisted living and memory care units and is licensed for over 90 beds on... Read More »
  • Communities Sell in California and Missouri

    Haven Senior Investments closed a deal right before year-end and announced a couple of others from the preceding months. First, an assisted living community was facing a hard closing deadline, with a 30-day escrow and commercial loan that would have been canceled if the transaction did not close by December 31. Rebecca Van Wieren and Scott Fuller... Read More »
  • Cambridge Provides HUD Construction Financing

    Cambridge Realty Capital provided $6.5 million in construction financing for a 20-bed memory care addition to The Pointe at Pontiac, an existing 60-bed supportive living facility in Pontiac, Illinois. The borrower is an Illinois limited liability company. The financing is insured by HUD under its Section 241(a) program and will be used to fund... Read More »
  • SNF Portfolio Receives Bridge Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, along with firm affiliates, provided $60 million in bridge financing to a five-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Illinois. The two-year loan was originated by Karina Davydov. The returning healthcare client, who operates over a dozen skilled nursing facilities in Illinois, will use the loan proceeds to acquire the portfolio,... Read More »
Foundry Commercial and Fundamental Advisor Announces Another Acquisition

Foundry Commercial and Fundamental Advisor Announces Another Acquisition

Ziegler’s Dan Revie and Tedd Van Gorden represented the seller of a 120-unit seniors housing community in Kansas. Featuring 60 assisted living, 40 memory care and 20 physician-directed care units, the sale also included an adjacent vacant lot where the new owner, a joint venture between Foundry Commercial and Fundamental Advisors, plans to develop independent living cottages.   Foster Senior Living will manage the community for the joint venture, which has already acquired six communities since forming in June, with other assets in Nebraska and South Carolina. Fundamental Advisors, in partnership with Scribner Capital, also provided the joint venture... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Two More CCRC Bond Financings

Ziegler Secures Two More CCRC Bond Financings

Ziegler’s impressive run of activity continued with a couple of financings closed in the normally quiet week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. The larger transaction saw $136.77 million of public bonds and bank capital closed for People of Faith, Inc., d/b/a Royal Oaks Life Care Community. Originally established in Sun City, Arizona in 1981, the CCRC consists of 258 independent living apartments, 102 IL garden homes, 59 assisted living units, 56 memory care units, and a 60-bed high acuity assisted living care center, which replaced the former skilled nursing facility on the 50-acre campus.   Ownership has a 20-year master plan to expand the property... Read More »
Ohio Obligated Group Secures Bond Financing

Ohio Obligated Group Secures Bond Financing

The Methodist Retirement Center of Central Ohio, a not-for-profit, faith-based corporation doing business as The Wesley Communities, recently refinanced its three senior living communities in the Columbus, Ohio area with a bond financing arranged by Ziegler. This was Ziegler’s first underwriting with The Wesley Communities. The portfolio comprises 668 units of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing. However, the obligated group excluded the assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing units at one campus and the AL and MC units at another (260 units altogether) that were financed by HUD. So, the obligated group actually consists of 408 units... Read More »
Symphony Care Network Acquires Four of Its Operated Communities

Symphony Care Network Acquires Four of Its Operated Communities

Ziegler’s Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice has been busy this month, reportedly closing a number of transactions in the last week, the most recent one for a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Illinois. Christopher Utz arranged and negotiated a $49.4 million debt placement for the current operator, Symphony Care Network, to acquire the portfolio from its REIT landlord. There are a total of 616 licensed skilled nursing beds and 109 assisted living units, and Symphony has been operating the properties since 2012.   Given the more conservative lending requirements nowadays, we imagine the portfolio was able to more than... Read More »
Ziegler Brokers Another Bank Bond Financing

Ziegler Brokers Another Bank Bond Financing

Ziegler has been on a roll lately, closing one bank bond financing after another for CCRC clients across the country. Its latest closing, working with Truist and Hancock Whitney, was for a not-for-profit CCRC in Fort Myers, Florida.   Founded in 1995, the community has grown over the years to include 333 independent living units, 44 IL villas, 44 assisted living units, 44 memory care units and a 64-bed/unit skilled nursing facility. It sits adjacent to HealthPark Medical Center and close to both Estero Bay Preserve State Park and Fort Myers Beach.  To replace outstanding debt, reimburse and fund certain capital expenditures and fund a debt service reserve... Read More »